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The most exhausting thing about the HP handwringing is the IT IS SO IMPORTANT TO PEOPLE
I went to every movie opening night. I waited in line for the books. I was 10 when the first movie hit, I grew up with it.
And I threw it all out because that woman hates me and those like me. It's that easy.
8:41 AM · Mar 25, 2026
Everyone going "oh but it saved my life" or "it was fundamental to my childhood" or "I wanted to share it with my kids"
Do you think trans people grew up in bubbles? You think we all just never engaged with one of the biggest pop culture series of the 21st century?
We did it. So can anyone.
we can even do it for things that don’t affect us! I was a HUGE Seinfeld fan. after Michael Richards revealed he was racist, and then Jerry Seinfeld revealed he was racist and sexist, I haven’t watched it since. I don’t WANT to.
call me a wild reactionary but I want art by people who aren’t bigots
It’s the need for absolution that annoys me the most. One could keep enjoying it in the privacy of their own mind or at least not post about it, but they want to announce it to the world and be told it’s okay and they’re still allies 🙄
yeah they want us to tell them it’s okay so they don’t feel bad
but it’s not okay
and if you’re supporting her in any way you should very much feel bad!
If only there was some kind of narrative to explain the idea of a book you think of as your friend only to learn it wants to kill you
no trans woman grew up with harry potter. we can't possibly know what it's like
Right!!! Like my birthday is July. I was 6 when the first movie released. Every birthday for 10 years I went to see the next movie in cinemas.
But I’m not giving money to a cause that erodes my civil rights.
if it's important to you you're fundamentally a boring person with less brain than a tradwife
"it really inspired me and that's why i bought this wand at the theme park" you wanted a toy for 20 years and never grew past that
Also there are plenty of wizard school franchises that aren't written by that fucking TERF. Maybe try some of those instead of using your nostalgia as an excuse to harm people.
HP objectively saved my life at a time where I had nothing else.
I too threw it away when I realized what Rowling is doing.
If I can let go of a series that saved my life, everyone else can too.
There is so much else to be a fan of too.
And people give up the works of monsters all the time who are not able to do a fraction of the damage she does each day. Like so many of us won't ever even open a copy of Sandman again, and that was an actual classic work of art.
guess what, im cis. i fucking threw it all in the trash when my trans friends started being that bitch's targets
The books are sitting on a shelf gathering dust and I go back and forth between thinking about throwing them away and donating them to the library book sale so that someone who would otherwise give her money could buy them for a buck each.
read the pair of these posts... hers is not a rational take. don't feel ashamed for liking something and don't let people control you. If you like Harry Potter, good for you, you're allowed to.
seperate the art from the artist
I am not invested in HP at all. I read it as an adult, it was just ok and if JKR hadn’t turned into a literal villain I’d still be thinking about donating the books because I have no interest in rereading them. I’m just debating whether I should trash them or deny her a little bit of money.
she has some very vanilla conservotard takes on transgenderism. nothing to lose sleep over
I think you maybe missed the part where JKR is pretty much banking the anti-trans movement in the UK. She paid the legal fees behind the recent UK court decision that bans trans women from women’s spaces.
She has flat-out said that every dollar that goes to her encourages her because she takes it as agreement with her stance.
The views might be “vanilla conservotard” but the impact is not, so yes, this IS something to lose sleep over and yes, I WILL judge you if you keep giving her money.
it's so baffling cause like its so easy to drop cause there's so much else to read and experience. Like i used to enjoy the books as a kid had plenty of memories with em and i dropped it the moment her transphobia came up, and that was years before i realized i was trans.
it took one fucking news article for me to take down whatever merch i had and get rid of the books like it’s not hard i promise
and that was *before* i came out
